Tag: funny kids saying

All children when learning to speak often get the words wrong or syllables in the wrong order, or “their tongue wrapped around their eye tooth,” as my dad would say. Normally, the child eventually learns to say the word or phrase properly and goes on with their life.

Not in our family.
We still to this day rattle off misspoken phrases from our childhood and call things by whatever name we fumbled as toddlers. It’s an immaturity thing that we – as adults – still use these words and phrases in our everyday communication, but we don’t care!

“Mom, can I ‘duh’ you?” (One of them asking permission to say ‘duh’ to her mother after her mother said something stupid.)

Lap dance therapy (lap band therapy)

Tiggy (TG&Y – the name of a southern general goods store)

“We love Tim because he first loved us.” VBS Bible School Daily Bible Verse. (1 John 4:19(KJV) “We loved Him, because he first loved us.” I could never figure out what my sister’s husband (named Tim) had to do with any of it.)

Song Title and Lyrics

“If you like peeing in the garden.” (“If you like pina coladas” – with greatest apologies to Rupert Holmes.)

“Ohhh Olive….” (“Who are you” The Who)

“Rocking in Atlanta at Taco Bell.” (“Rocking in Atlanta at Tattletales” – from “Girls, Girls, Girls by Motley Crue)

“Virgin, virgin.” (“Urgent” by Foreigner)

“One wing girl.” (“White Wing Dove” from the song “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks)

“Bald-headed woman.” (“More than a woman.” this only works with the Bee Gees’ version. The Tavares version actually sounded right, I guess.)

“No time mal-oo-gas” (“No time for losers…” from Queen’s “We are the Champions.)

Movie and Television

Da Wizard Da Boz (“The Wizard of Oz”)

The Princess the Diarrheas (“The Princess Diaries”)

Learning to Read

Fried Shrimp House (the sign outside Friendship House retirement home)